My re-read of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man continues, and I’m enjoying it greatly. This post contains some of my reflections.
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Endlessly Inartistic Portraits of Himself
I’m re-reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man right now, and I was surprised to find the word “immodest” in one of the most significant sections. This post will briefly look at that word in Portrait, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.
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This post extends my discussion of gaps in Finnegans Wake, which I first wrote about here. I want to look at a few instances of the word “blank,” as well as another instance of horseracing that describes HCE in terms of absence.
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Another metaphor for life in Finnegans Wake is a horse race. This post will look at some instances of horse racing in the novel.
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The Suspended Sentence 